..The three patterns of gene expression were also identified in fluconazole-resistant clinical isolates, providing further evidence that these patterns represent common programs of adaptation to fluconazole...

Single nucleotide polymorphism-based diagnostic system for crop-associated Sclerotinia species

..The SNP-based assay accurately identified 96% of Sclerotinia isolates and could be performed faster than RFLP profiling using pMF2. This method shows promise for accurate, high-throughput species identification...

..In a variation of experiment 2, haploids showed a higher frequency of resistance than diploids, suggesting that degree of dominance and ploidy are important factors in the evolution of antifungal drug resistance...

Origins of host-specific populations of the blast pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae in crop domestication with subsequent expansion of pandemic clones on rice and weeds of rice

James B AndersonCentre for the Analysis of Genome Function, Department of Cell and Systems Biology, and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, CanadaCurr Biol 20:1383-8. 2010

..This DM interaction is the first reported between experimentally evolved alleles of known genes and shows how reproductive isolation can arise rapidly when divergent selection is strong...

An optimized method for mycelial compatibility testing in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum